A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

And therefore is the outward beauty a true sign of the inward goodness, and in bodies this comeliness is imprinted, more and less, as it were, for a mark of the soul, whereby she is outwardly known; as in trees, in which the beauty of the buds giveth a testimony of the goodness of the fruit.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.